UK Parliament Group to Study Thorium Reactors

“The NRPA invalidated that thorium is kind nuclear power, as many have earlier asserted,” said Nils Bøhmer, Bellona’s daily manager and nuclear physicist. “Using thorium leads to highly radioactive nuclear waste and the risk of accidents will always be present.”

But a Norwegian government committee concluded that, despite those dangers, thorium is worth investigating:

The Thorium Report Committee finds that the current knowledge of thorium based energy generation and the geology is not solid enough to provide a final assessment regarding the potential value for Norway of a thorium based system for long term energy production. The Committee recommends that the thorium option be kept open in so far it represents an interesting complement to the uranium option to strengthen the sustainability of nuclear energy.